
Nature writing, memoir, poetry and prose from a meaning-making marine biologist.
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This piece is a follow up to one I wrote a month ago called I Believe Her. I’d encourage you to read that one first unless you are quite fond of reading things in an order that leaves you a little turned around, in which case, by all means,...
I am hyper attuned to misogyny of late, like a vapor in the air that I can sense a single, poisonous molecule of. First, it tickles my nose, and I scrunch it up in disgust, and then I find that I am holding my breath until my temples begin...
I was raised to be a believer. Growing up, that’s what we called ourselves. Believers. Believers in the authority of the Bible. Believers in salvation as the gateway to eternal life. Believers in Christ’s death as an atonement for our sins,...
Once upon a time, when I was a younger woman, I helped save a mother humpback whale who had been badly entangled somewhere along her migration route. I told the story here on Substack, and you all received with such tenderness and joy. Perh...
There is a wildness inside each and every one of us— a sharp-eyed wolf sniffing the air for green buds breaking through the crust of the earth, pivoting the fuzzy shells of her ears to the chattering world outside her den, listening for hea...
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Nature writer, marine biologist, and mother. I braid science, absurdity, spirituality, and the daily astonishments of raising a child. Writing a memoir about love and whales.
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